Reishi: The Mushroom of Calm Endurance

Imagine a medicine so potent, and so rare, that finding it in the wild didn't

just make you lucky—it made you a criminal. In ancient China and Feudal Japan, there was a law

concerning a specific red mushroom. If a commoner found it growing on a plum tree and failed

to surrender it to the nobility, the punishment could be execution. It was called Lingzhi

in China and Mannentake in Japan. You likely know it as Red Reishi. For thousands of

years, it was known as the "Mushroom of Immortality." It was the exclusive

property of Emperors, who used it to prove their "Mandate of Heaven," and high-ranking Samurai,

who used it for something far more practical than just longevity. Today,